Trick Baby, Iceberg Slim
Trick Baby, Iceberg Slim
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Trick Baby
The Story of a White Negro

Author: Iceberg Slim

Narrator: Cary Hite

Unabridged: 10 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2014

Synopsis

This is the gritty truth, the life of a hustler in South Side Chicago, where the only characters are those who con and those who get conned.Trick Baby tells the story of White Folks, a blue-eyed, light-haired con artist whose pale skin allows him to pass in the streets as a white man. Folks is tormented early in life, rejected by other children and branded a "trick baby," a child conceived between a hooker and her trick. Refusing to abandon his life in the ghetto and a chance at revenge, Folks is taken under the wing of an older mentor, Blue. What happens next is unbelievable.Only Slim could bring us the story of a hustler forced to learn the game and rise to the top. It's Slim's story, and he tells it the only way he knows how: in the language of the streets.

About Iceberg Slim

Iceberg Slim  (1918–1992), a.k.a. Robert Beck, was born in Chicago and initiated into the life of the pimp at age eighteen. He briefly attended the Tuskegee Institute but dropped out to return to the streets of the South Side, where he remained, pimping, until he was forty-two. After several stints in jail, culminating in a ten-month stay in Cook County, he decided to give up the life and turned to writing. With a family to feed, he folded his life into the pages of Pimp, which emerged as a definitive chronicle of street life. Slim was catapulted into the public eye as a new American hero, known for speaking the truth whether that truth was ugly, sexy, rude, or blunt. He published six more books based on his life and different aspects of the ghetto black, pimp community. Slim died at age seventy-three in 1992, one day before the Los Angeles riots.

About Cary Hite

Cary Hite has performed in several theaters across the country as a cast member in the longest-running African American play in history, The Diary of Black Men. He also appeared in Edward II, Fences, Macbeth, Good Boys, Side Effects May Vary, and the indie feature The City Is Mine. He has voiced several projects for AudibleKids, including Souls Look Back in Wonder, From Slave Ship to Freedom Road, and Papa, Do You Love Me?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michelle on December 03, 2009

This is one of my favorite books. I fell in love with the main character Johnny O' brien and even tried to look him up to see if he was still alive! The story is about a mixed man who is so light he could pass for white. They referred to him as an Errol Flynn look alike in the book. If you google hi......more

Goodreads review by Mish on December 23, 2015

Painful chronicle of the black male underclass of the USA in the 1940s. Written in the 60s by Robert Beck who lived a similar life of crime in the same era and later went straight and became a writer. The “Trick Baby” of the title is the very pale skinned son of a black woman who gets whacked by rac......more

Goodreads review by Brian on February 24, 2024

If I were asked to summarize the topics of Trick Baby, it's 1/3 sex, 1/3 thinking about sex and 1/3 hustling. Trick Baby is a novel about a mixed-race man who goes by the name of White Folks and can pass for white, but lives in the black world. The title is a name given to some light-skinned childre......more

Goodreads review by Derek on February 27, 2021

Fantastic. I was really surprised how well this book stands up to Wright’s Black Boy of even Ellison’s Invisible Man in terms of its treatment of race. Okay, maybe that’s overkill, a pimp’s exaggeration. But this book is extremely clever, and equally funny and tragic. I am embarrassed that I’ve live......more

Goodreads review by J. on July 05, 2012

I read this book after becoming a fan of Robert Beck. Anyone who considers themselves 'street smart' should read this book. Maybe 'squares' should read it too because it reveals things about life that everyone should be aware of!......more

Quotes

“One of the greatest black writers in American history.” Ice-T

“Iceberg Slim was the godfather of a genre.” K’wan, #1 bestselling author

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